Word: mariamma
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...device of the British government to reduce India's population. Even having the body temperature taken was supposed to prove fatal. Ida Scudder sallied forth alone to give inoculations, and to haul the sick to segregation camps. Many a family hid its infectious victims, and tried to appease Mariamma, goddess of plague, by animal sacrifices...
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